SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Albion Woodbury Small
27 Mar 2013
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Chicago school, thomas, addams, symbolic interactionism, mead and goffman. The department of sociology at the university of chicago was founded in. 1892 by albion small: robert park developed a system of general concepts of social life, social competition, social conflict. The chicago school serves as a reference to the urban sociologists at the. University of chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. Decline of the chicago school increasing preoccupation with being scientific (i. e. sophisticate methods and employing statistical analysis) some resentment of chicago"s dominance of both the american sociological. Note central figure in the chicago department was herbert blumner who in 1937 was in fact responsible for coining the phrase symbolic interactionism. Chicago school focused greatly on ethnographies and life history experience. Many ethnographies came out of the chicago school the jack roller, the. Polish peasant, the professional thief, the cocktail waitress, the hobo . Ethnographies where the life was studied on the inside.
